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KP starboard pro model

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Created by Al Planet > 9 months ago, 21 Jul 2017
Al Planet
TAS, 1546 posts
21 Jul 2017 12:16PM
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This is up on the starboard website and it's 55*230 for an 86 litre.....that seems almost heretical when compared to all the other boards on the market. Regardless, it looks like an awesome board.

http://www.star-board-windsurfing.com/2018/boards/2018-ultrakode-kp-pro-model/

LeeD
3939 posts
21 Jul 2017 10:55AM
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Yup, look at the size and steepness of the waves he likes to ride. Don't need a 58 cm wide platapus for those waves. And he must still weigh at least 175 lbs. at his height.

swoosh
QLD, 1926 posts
21 Jul 2017 1:04PM
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Is it just me or does KP look really thin and gaunt in that video?

mclovin
SA, 724 posts
21 Jul 2017 12:48PM
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LeeD said..

Yup, look at the size and steepness of the waves he likes to ride. Don't need a 58 cm wide platapus for those waves. And he must still weigh at least 175 lbs. at his height.


Small and crumbly? None of that footage was at all steep or sizeable.

Al Planet
TAS, 1546 posts
21 Jul 2017 4:54PM
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Platypus......not Platapus.....(he is a fellow Tazmanian!!!)

Rango
WA, 692 posts
22 Jul 2017 5:40PM
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10 yr old design got at least another 7 in mine then.Nice looking board though.

petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
23 Jul 2017 11:52PM
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Any board that's not a slalom board i don't even look at

Tried a few wave boards on the river and nearly .....

A few free ride / slalom boards like the Futura and almost as bad

The Kode.....tried it once and those inbound foot straps were a nightmare!

peguin
WA, 263 posts
24 Jul 2017 7:09AM
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Must be a industry first for a signature pro model for a sailor over 40 and not a regular competitor any more. Don't think even naish had that honor. Good to see industry looking at it main core age group. Liked his comment about young style bottom turns.

Faff
VIC, 1188 posts
24 Jul 2017 10:27AM
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petermac33 said..
Any board that's not a slalom board i don't even look at

Tried a few wave boards on the river and nearly .....

A few free ride / slalom boards like the Futura and almost as bad

The Kode.....tried it once and those inbound foot straps were a nightmare!


What's the point of this post?

KDog
313 posts
27 Jul 2017 6:05AM
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What's the point of this post. We'll spend your $$$ of course!

LeeD
3939 posts
29 Jul 2017 2:52AM
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Friend of mine just bought a used Simmer Flywave, 2012 I think, 230 long, 56 wide, and 86 liters.

Mastbender
1972 posts
29 Jul 2017 5:39AM
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peguin said..
Must be a industry first for a signature pro model for a sailor over 40 and not a regular competitor any more. Don't think even naish had that honor. Good to see industry looking at it main core age group. Liked his comment about young style bottom turns.




Even though he won this last Aloha Classic at Ho'okipa? Seriously?
He's got enough cred for me.

Stuthepirate
SA, 3589 posts
29 Jul 2017 8:39AM
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petermac33 said..
Tried a few wave boards on the river and nearly .....


Exactly.

windsurftom
NSW, 354 posts
30 Jul 2017 10:19PM
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Easily the best looking starboard shape in years.

I heard his aloha winning board was a quatro custom. Dunno if that was a fact though

windsurftom
NSW, 354 posts
30 Jul 2017 10:38PM
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Not really exact though Starboard...

A swallow tail isn't exactly the same as a pin tail

They also supply it as a thruster when the aloha classic board didn't have a centre box







Notice his aloha classic board had 4x US Box... Unlikely to be SB made

Mastbender
1972 posts
31 Jul 2017 8:11AM
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Starboard does use US boxes, every Starboard I've had, and currently have, have US boxes as well as slot boxes.

KDog
313 posts
31 Jul 2017 1:06PM
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Custom Quatro.asked him about it and that was his answer



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